The Journalists

Senior Fellows Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern report primarily from Southeast Asia, working as a print and photojournalist team on issues involving the environment, health, and human rights. In 2013, ThingsAsian Press published their two books, "Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos" and "This Way More Better."

Coates, a former correspondent for Gourmet, was a 2010-2011 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she focused on food security issues.

Clearance teams work to detect and remove unexploded ordnance from a garden plot in Laos. Photo by Jerry Redfern.

Environmental Justice

Senior Fellows Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern have dedicated more than a decade to reporting on issues of environmental justice in Asia, which includes public health and human rights. Their reporting connects the economies and societies of that part of the world to the West, telling the stories of people there affected by globalization and foreign policy.